HIT: read aloud for 6th gr on Friendship

[Janice Ziglin <janicez@EXECPC.COM>]

Thanks to all of you who sent ideas for 6th grade read alouds.  My 6th
grade teacher was delighted with the ideas.

Here's the list:

The Cay (and its sequel/prequel) Theodore Taylor
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
View from Saturday (loved by a 6th grade class last year)
The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor It is a story set in southern
        Mississippi during the depression.  The book is short about
        40 pages and is an excellent book dealing with friendship and race.
Freak the Mighty
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco (excellent read aloud very suitable for
6th grad.  Have kleenexes ready.)
Daphne's Book by Hahn )the story of two girls assigned to
work
together on a school project - writing a book.  One girl comes
    from a troubled background and is not well accepted, and the
    other doesn't want to work with her.  It is a powerful story.
The Faithful Friend by San Souci
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
Make Lemonade by Virginia E. Wolff
The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto
Crazy Lady by J.Conley
Heart of a Champion by ???
Marrying Malcolm Murgatroyd" by Mame Farrell?.  It
        is about 6th graders.  The two main characters are a boy and a girl
whose
        families have been friends since day one.  The girl, however, for
several
        years has not wanted anyone to know that her family and she are
associated
        with the boys family because the boy, Malcolm, is, and always has
been,                   the class nerd.  To complicate matters, the girl has a 
younger
brother who
        has muscular dystrophy and the one person who really relates and is
        friends  with him is Malcolm. It is a great book.  The sixth grades
        classes even wrote the author and asked if she will be writing any
other                   books - no prodding from me! the kids absolutely loved it.
--

Jan
--
Jan Ziglin, Library Media Specialist
Pilgrim Park Middle School
Elm Grove, WI
janicez@execpc.com

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